Sound Log for Nicholas Escobar's "The Immigrant" Soundtrack

Object Sound/Action Further Object/Recording Detail Number of Recordings Location of Recording Microphone Used Air Conditioner The hum of the air conditioner outside of my family's house. N/A 1 Backyard (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N A collection of ambient recordings of streets, cities and nature that I've During the arrival to Ellis Island, many of these recordings are layered on top Zoom H4N recorded over the last 8 months in various locations in Europe and the US. of one another, to give a sense of larger space. Also the nighttime recordings Poland (Maine, USA), Battersea Park (London, UK), Paris (), Killin and Edinburgh in Poland, Maine, yielded a fantastic array of cricket recordings which make (Scotland, UK) Singerstrasse (Berlin, ), Calle Balmes (Barcelona, Spain), Spring Mill Ambient Street + Nature Recordings multiple appearances when Charlie and Edna are together. 21 Road (Villanova, PA, USA) Ringing the bell, varying the volume of the ring and, when possible, the length N/A Zoom H4N Argentine Brass Cowbell 3 Living Room (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Dropping a penny on the strings, muting strings with hand and with piece of An old Oscar Schmit autoharp that my grandmother bought for my mother. It Zoom H4N Autoharp paper while doing a glissando with a guitar pick quickly falls out of tune, so I used that to my advantage 8 Home studio (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Bedroom Door The squeaking sound of the hinge N/A 7 Bedroom (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N Hitting the old red bike bell with a wooden drum stick (muted with hand and N/A Zoom H4N Bike bell unmuted). Letting the bike bell ring . Muting ringing bell with my hand. 35 Home studio (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Bingo Shuffling the bingo balls inside of the small metal sphere N/A 10 Basement (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N Boggle Shook the plasic cubes inside of the plasic holding container. N/A 7 Basement (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N The screeching distorted alert sound. Recorded a number of different It was making a horrible screeching sound one day, that made my skin stand on Zoom H4N variations of length and pitch. end. Turns out if you open it up, and touch the metal bell to the silver cylinder, Broken Smoke Detector it emits a horrifying cry. 20 Home studio (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Popping the bubbles from one small bubble wrap sheet in both large and N/A Zoom H4N smaller groups. Varying legnths of popping (short and long). Recorded on my Bubble Wrap cough facing a pillow to have a muted acoustic. 23 On couch in TV room (Villanova, Pennsylvania) The dinging of the old pan from hitting it with a metal knife, varying the N/A Zoom H4N Cast Iron Psan location of the strike (bottom, inside of the pan, on the edge). 45 Carpeted stairwell (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Touching pieces to a chess board. Also dropped a couple pieces onto N/A Zoom H4N Chess Pieces the board at the same time. 8 Living Room (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Placed microphone inside of a large copper bowl from Colombia and slightly N/A Zoom H4N hit it with an old metal pocker to created a gong effect. Also hit smaller Copper Pots + Bowl copper pots together. 17 Living Room (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Four varying caws from a nearby crow. I heard a lonely crow cawing outside in our yard one morning. It must have Zoom H4N Crow been slightly ill because it wouldn't move from the branch. 4 Backyard (Villanova, Pennsylvania) The sound of darts hitting the board. I placed the microphone on the bottle N/A Zoom H4N Dart Board shelf of the board so it was as close to the thrown darts as possible 7 Basement (Villanova, Pennsylvania) My family's 12-year-old English Springer Spaniel. I recorded Delphia barking N/A Zoom H4N on the dock on Thompson Lake. I also recorded her nails as she ran across Delphia tile. 2 Thompson Lake (Maine, USA), Kitchen (Villanova, PA) Multiple different "expressions", varying the speed of the squeeze (slow, A bright pink dog toy in the shape of a pig. Our dog absolute hates the sound. Zoom H4N Dog Toy medium and fast), punching it in certain recordings 46 Carpeted stairwell (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Longform recordings of both machines running at once. Both machines were at the house on Thompson Lake, I was intrigued by the Zoom H4N rhythm that the dryer was making as it ran. It even had a high-pitched sound Dryer and Washing Machine that felt melodic. 1 House in Poland (Maine, USA) The sound of a large green ribbon being stuck into the path of a small plasic N/A Zoom H4N Fan fan's blades. 13 Basement (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Close up recordings of kicking the ball, placing the mic inside to goal while N/A Zoom H4N scoring a goal, recording the movement of the rods which hold the foosball Foosball players 8 Basement (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Gecko Kalimba Clusters (multiple notes at once) and hitting the wood lightly with finger N/A 9 Home studio (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N Hohner Harmonica Bending the pitch, short quick punches and rips N/A 14 Home studio (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N Horse Bones Hitting them together, getting slightly different pitches From the pathology department at Penn Vet's New Bolton Center. 5 Basement (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N The sound of the engine of my father's 1960 Karmann Ghia running idle, the N/A Zoom H4N sound of the engine turning on, as well as some FX sounds of the stick shift Karmann Ghia grinding and squeaking 22 Driveway (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Recorded samples from a PSR-292 Yamaha keyboard through a small I recorded long, uninterrupted takes at the piano just experimenting with Zoom H4N Behringer amplifier. These sounds include screams, laughs, car crash, low different sounds, and eventually picked the ones listed when I was editing. synth hits, church bells, mirimba, bell synth and a cluster of different sounds Keyboard Samples (created by changing the sounds while playing). 21 Basement (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Flicking the pull tab, and creating different notes (F, F#, G, A flat, A natural, B N/A Zoom H4N flat) as the tab became loosened from the can. Also scrunched up the metal La Croix Can and let it pop back into place. 25 Home studio (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Two antique lamps. Pulling the pull switch a number of times, trying to vary N/A Zoom H4N Light Switch the length of the pull and the speed. 10 Foyer (Villanova, Pennsylvania), Bedroom (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Mancala Dropping the marbles onto the wooden board. N/A 4 Basement (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N Matches Dropping a large match box onto a wooden table N/A 3 Front porch (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N Metal Bucket Kicking it. N/A 1 Basement (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N Metal Candle Holder Dropping it onto wooden table N/A 3 Front porch (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N Metal Clips Placing two metal clips around a pencil and rotating it quickly N/A 1 Studio 1, Alison House (Edinburgh, Scotland) Neumann KM 184 Sound Log for Nicholas Escobar's "The Immigrant" Soundtrack

Recorded multiple takes of muted and unmuted hits (which were pitched These rods, coils and shelves were from a shelving unit we had purchased for Zoom H4N high and low). Also used the coil piece and scratched the metal shelf. my brother's shower. It didn't end up working so we were going to pack it up Dropped a bunch of rods together. Lightly hit the coil piece against the shelf to return, but before shipping it off I recorded 237 sounds. This soundkit took to create a cymbal-like sound. Used metal rods on the guitar to create a slide the longest time to edit. effect. Used the rods on the autoharp to create a picking effect. Metal Rods, Coils, Shelves 237 Home studio (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Slamming down one side of this antique Argentine scale, creating a sharp hit N/A Zoom H4N Metal Scale 2 Kitchen (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Recording hits into the corner of the table, as well as stright hits going N/A Zoom H4N Nok Hockey across the stereo image. Also recorded the sound of picking up the table. 13 Basement (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Pillsbury Dough Boy Ceramic Jar Lightly placing the top onto the jar. N/A 2 Kitchen (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N Hitting it with right hand, riustling it with both hands, clapping it together N/A Zoom H4N Plasic Bag between both hands 8 Carpeted stairwell (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Rolled Mancala glass marbles (in varying numbers) down the sheet, mostly This sheet was originally in a large plastic poster frame. I was taking it up to Zoom H4N past the microphone. Also recorded dropping Boggle plasic pieces and the attic and accidentlly shook it, and it created this insane, science-fiction-like wooden game piece onto the sheet. Shook the sheet on its own. sound. While experimenting with sounds in the basement, I decided to prop up the sheet on a chair, and have it angled down onto a glass table. I was then able to roll a variety of different objects down the plasticslide. Plasic Sheet 40 Basement (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Playing Cards Varying speed of shuffling, as well as tapping individual cards. N/A 9 Basement (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N The sound of the engine turning on, as well as longer form sounds of the While on vacation on Thompson Lake in Maine, USA, my family rented a Zoom H4N boat riding through the water. I also recorded two short recordings of one pontoon boat. The sounds I recorded on the water were a crucial piece in the of its doors. soundscape for "The immigrant", representing not only the boat the Chaplin Pontoon boat engine + door travels on, but also his own memory of the journey. 15 Thompson Lake (Maine, USA) Multiple recordings of fireworks going off in Prague on New Years, 2020. While staying in an Air BnB in Prague, Czech Republic on New Years, I placed Zoom H4N my Zoom mic outside of the window to capture to nighttime soundscape. Many people were setting off fireworks in the streets. These individual firework recordings came to represent violent actions in "The Immigrant" like Prague Fireworks punches and kicks 5 NaZborenci (Prague, Czech Republic) Quoridor Dropping the wooden game pieces onto the wooden board. N/A 8 Basement (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N Recycling Bin Opening it slowly causing it to squeak N/A 3 Kitchen (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N Variety of recordings of two rocks hitting one another, and scraping one Recorded at both the Esk River in Roslin, Scotland, and Alsion House in Zoom H4N, Bluebird River Rocks rock against another Edinburgh, Scotland. 31 River North Esk (Roslin, Scotland) and Studio 1, Allison House (Edinburgh Scotland) Microphone Salad Spinner Placing the microphone inside and spinning it quickly N/A 2 Dining Room (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N Squeaking two shells against each other, dropping 3 shells together onto a N/A Zoom H4N Shells from Delaware carpet 61 Carpeted stairwell (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Tissue Box Pulling out tissues quickly from the box N/A 3 Kitchen (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N A variety of different emotive recordings: short and sharp, long and low, N/A Zoom H4N both the I chord and the V, varying the amount of notes used (as much as one can with a small toy accordion). Toy Accordion 28 Basement (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Typerwriter The sounds of an Underwood Noiseless typerwriter keys. N/A 7 Living Room (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zoom H4N Scissors, a Kettle, Rakes and Plasic Tarps. The scissors were just a variety of These sounds were recorded for a prior short film titled "When Are You Zoom H4N different takes of cutting into the air. For the rakes, I recorded the sound of Going to Cut the Grass?". raking leaves. The plasic garden tarp was smashed together with two hands, and also dropped to the ground. The kettle was boiling and I placed the mic Various Garden and Kitchen Equipment right up against the plasic exterior. 16 Backyard and Kitchen (Edinburgh, Scotland) Pulling up the wooden blinds, also hitting the two pull strings together My bedroom has large wooden blinds that create a "whooshing" sound when Zoom H4N you pull them up quickly. I held the microphone quite close so that the sound Window Blinds is clear and crisp. 12 Bedroom (Villanova, Pennsylvania) The sound of the high pitched beeping alert This was the first sound that I recorded for "The Immigrant". It would take Zoom H4N over 2 minutes for the beep to occur so I sat in the closet for quite a while Working Smoke Detector getting different perspectives. 1 Closet (Villanova, Pennsylvania) Zipper Zipping the zipper of a jacket N/A 1 Studio 1, Alison House (Edinburgh, Scotland) Neumann KM 184